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Betar Illit Municipality signed an agreement with the Terem to provide an emergency clinic in the chareidi city. The plan calls for opening a large emergency medical services clinic at 1 Ohelei Sarah Street near the city’s other emergency services.

According to the agreement signed on erev Pesach, the clinic will provide emergency medical care and the facility will operate all week, including on Shabbos and Yomtov.

The services offered will include but are not limited to emergency medical care, laboratory blood services, x-ray services, orthopedic services, stitching wounds, IV therapy, as well as OB/GYN services including ultrasounds.

The new emergency clinic is scheduled to be operational in the coming months. According to the Terem website, it operates 17 emergency clinics nationwide which are manned by a staff of 800 professionals. It boasts an average waiting time of only 57 minutes, far less than a hospital emergency room, and 1 million people are treated in the clinics annually including 300,000 children.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)